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INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

Gennady Agre – WP5 Leader

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AComIn: Advanced Computing for Innovation

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http://www.iict.bas.bg

WP5 Objectives (1st Project year)

1. To support the project Web-site and to update it timely with all relevant information

2. To partly support the organization of 3 scientific events in order to disseminate the AComIn achievements in the three project topics (advance computing, smart interfaces, optimization and intelligent control)

3. To organize regular cycles of Technology Transfer seminars for User Communities…To involve visiting partners as well as incoming experience researchers in the business-oriented know-how transfer.

4. To publish promotional materials, leaflets, project descriptions both in Bulgarian and English…

An excerpt from Project Description of Work:

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AcomIn Web site

Team area

Public area

http://iict.bas.bg/acomin/index.html

http://iict.bas.bg/acomin/index.html

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AComIn-supported Scientific Events

• The 1st National Workshop “Information and Communication Technologies for Human Health and Quality of Life” (ICT-HuHeQuL2013)

• The 9th International Conference “Large-Scale Scientific Computations” (LSCC 2013)

• The 9th International Conference “Recent Advances in Natural Language processing” (RANLP 2013)

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ICT-HuHeQuL 2013 The 1st National Workshop “Information and Communication Technologies for Human Health and Quality of Life” (ICT-HuHeQuL 2013) was held on May 15-17 2013 in Stara Zagora Mineral Baths, Bulgaria.

Short Description Participants The discussed topics ranged from theoretical considerations of modelling and simulation approaches to demonstration of application prototypes that can be used in healthcare decision making, ambient assisted living, orthopaedic surgery, quality preservation of foods etc.

4 extended AComIn-related papers will be publish in in the Journal Cybernetics and Information Technologies (CIT), )4, 2013.

From IICT: 16 researchers

Bulgarian participants outside IICT: 18 researchers (6 – invited)

Participants from local municipal and health structures: 8

The support, provided by AComIn to ICT-HuHeQuL’13 enabled: to cover the travel expenses and accommodation of 6 keynote speakers to support all participants from IICT Project leaflets were given to all Workshop participants as event materials. The AComIn logo is shown in the ICT-HuHeQuL’13 Program and in all conference materials.

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LSCC 2013 The 9th International Conference “Large-Scale Scientific Computations” (LSCC 2013) was held on June 3-7, 2013 in Sozopol, Bulgaria.

Short Description Participants The meeting provides a forum for exchange of ideas between scientists, who develop and study numerical methods and algorithms, and researchers, who apply them for solving real life problems.

Major scientific topics, all related to the AComIn project:

Hierarchical, adaptive, domain decomposition and local

refinement methods;

Robust preconditioning algorithms;

Monte Carlo methods and algorithms; Numerical linear

algebra;

Control systems; Large-scale computations of

environmental biomedical and engineering problems;

High-performance algorithms for engineering problems;

Parallel algorithms and performance analysis.

From IICT: 25, 23 of them researchers

Bulgarian participants outside IICT: 19 researchers

Foreign participants: 110, including 5 Plenary Invited Speakers

Invited participants: 9, 2 of them supported by AComIn

http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom13/

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LSCC 2013 10 AComIn-related papers (to be published in LNCS)

• P. Schwaha, M. Nedjalkov, S. Selberherr, J.M. Sellier, I. Dimov, R.

Georgieva, Stochastic Formulation of Newton's Acceleration

• J. M. Sellier, M. Nedjalkov, I. Dimov, S. Selberherr, The Role of

Annihilation in a Wigner Monte Carlo approach

• P. Koprinkova-Hristova, Adaptive Critic Design and Heuristic Search for

Optimization

• O. Roeva, S. Fidanova, V. Atanassova, Hybrid ACO-GA for Parameter

Identification of an E. coli Cultivation Process Model

• S. Margenov, S. Stoykov, Y. Vutov, Numerical Homogenization of

Heterogeneous Anisotropic Linear Elastic Materials

• S. Stoykov, S. Margenov, Nonlinear Forced Vibration Analysis of Elastic

Structures by Using Parallel Solvers for Large-Scale Systems

• E. Atanassov, D. Georgiev, T. Gurov, A. Karaivanova, and Y. Nikolova,

Distributed system for query processing with Grid authentication

• R. Hristova, S. Ivanovska, and M. Durchova, Performance Analysis of

the Regional Grid Resources for an Environmental Modeling Application

• M. Lymbery, Robust Balanced Semi-Coarsening Multilevel

Preconditioning of Bicubic FEM Systems

• T. Tashev, V. Monov, Large-Scale Simulation of Non-Uniform Load

Traffic in Studying the Throughput of a Crossbar Packed Switch.


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LSCC 2013 Added-Value for AComIn Objectives

The support provided by AComIn to LSSC’13 enabled:

• To cover the local expenses of several worldwide known scientists giving top level plenary and key note invited talks.

• To support a part (10 from 25) of the participants from IICT.

The conference materials included the AComIn flyer informing the participants about the objectives and specific activities of the project. The AComIn support is acknowledged in the LSSC’13 Book of Abstracts as well as at the conference website.


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RANLP 2013 The 9th International Conference “Recent Advances in Natural Language processing” (RANLP 2013) was held on September 7-13, 2013 in Hissar, Bulgaria.

Short Description Participants

RANLP-2013 consisted of:

4 tutorials given in 2 days (7-8 September

2013)

Main conference (9-11 September 2013) with 6

invited talks, 60 oral presentations, 39 poster

presentations, and a parallel Student Research

Workshop with 4 oral presentations and 21

poster presentations;

3 Workshops held on 12-13 September

2013, where 4 invited talks and 21 papers were

presented

From IICT: 5 researchers

Bulgarian participants outside IICT: 13 researchers

Foreign participants: 141 including 9 invited speakers

Invited participants: 9, 6 of them supported by AComIn

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RANLP 2013 5 AComIn-related papers published in the RANLP-

2013 Conference and Workshops Proceedings

Nikolova, I., I. Temnikova and G. Angelova.

Enriching Patent Search with External Keywords: a

Feasibility Study.

Temnikova, I., N. Hailu, G. Angelova and K. B. Cohen.

Measuring Closure Properties of Patent

Sublanguages.

Temnikova, I., I. Nikolova, W. A. Baumgartner, G.

Angelova and K. B. Cohen. Closure Properties of

Bulgarian Clinical Text.

Zhikov, V., G. Georgiev, K. Simov and P. Osenova.

Combining POS Tagging, Dependency Parsing and

Co-referential Resolution for Bulgarian.

Simov, K. Towards a System for Dynamic Language

Resources in LOD.

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RANLP 2013 Added-Value for AComIn Objectives

The support provided by AComIn to LSSC’13 enabled:

To cover the travel expenses of numerous renowned keynote speakers and tutorial lecturers. The participation of six keynote speakers at the conference was very important for the IICT seniors because in this way it became possible to listen to state-of-the-art presentations and establish fruitful contacts for further developments;

To introduce the notion of “reduced fees” for conference participants from countries with lower standard. In this way many young people from the neighbouring countries, as well as from countries from Middle East and North Africa, attended the conference. They might be future postdocs in AComIn and other IICT projects, and thus supporting their participation will repay in later years.

All RANLP-2013 participants were informed about AComIn, its objectives and results, and the possibility to apply for postdoctoral positions in the project. This improves the image of IICT as a regional Centre of Excellence in language and semantic technologies.

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AComIn-related Publications

• 14 journal papers

• 38 papers in conference proceedings

• 2 invited talks

• 16 publications in print

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The AComIn Newsletter

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Technology-Transfer Seminars

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Emerging User Communities

• Management of Digital Content

• Image Processing

• 3D Technologies

• Industrial Mathematics

User Communities are dynamically-growing expert groups that disseminate AComIn results to innovation-absorbing Bulgarian companies.

The members of these Communities will be included in intensive industrial training seminars, hands-on experiments with the Smart Lab devices and exchange of best industrial practices.

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UG “Management of Digital Content”

The objective of the MDC User Group is to transfer innovations in the area of semantic and linguistic technologies applied to digital content management to Bulgaria. The creation of the group was initiated by:

Prof. Galia Angelova and Prof. Gennady Agre – IICT-BAS Prof. Darina Dichev and Prof. Christo Dichev - Winston Salem State University, USA Prof. Milena Dobreva - University of Malta

The main efforts are focused on:

Transferring the best world practices in creation and management of educational digital content to the Bulgarian K12 e-learning education Transferring innovative applications of digital cultural heritage repositories adapted to educational context

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The MDC User Group was created after organizing a series of lectures attended mainly by K-12 teachers, members of the academic, education and administrative communities as well as individual meetings with potential active members of the projected user group :

Prof.Darina Dicheva. Finding Open Educational Resources in Computer Science (26 June 2013)

Prof. Darina Dicheva. Current practice trends and challenges in K-12 online learning (26 June 2013 )

Prof. Christo Dichev. Do we need K-12 on-line learning in Bulgaria ? (27 June 2013)

Prof. Milena Dobreva. Methods of Studying Users of Digital Libraries (July 1 2013)

Prof. Milena Dobreva. End Users and Digital Preservation: Challenges and Perspectives (8 July 2013) Meetings of Prof. Milena Dobreva with the Director of Bansko Museum Complex and PhD students from the Department of Library and Information Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of Sofia University (13 and 16 July 2013)

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The results up to now: Development of methodology for studying, analyzing and assessing of the needs and readiness for online learning in Bulgarian K-12 education system based on large scale data. Development of a survey questionnaire covering questions on the knowledge and skills of potential teachers, perceived barriers and facilitators, training needs as well as questions on the current state of information\ and communication technology in schools and its use. Creation of an initial core group, whose near term goals include popularizing and providing a community support for the planned user studies. The user group social site is: https://www.facebook.com/eUchitel

https://www.facebook.com/eUchitel

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